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EPSRC Reference: GR/L40106/01
Title: NEW MICROPORUS CATALYSTS FROM CRYSTAL ENGINEERING
Principal Investigator: Morris, Professor RE
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Department: Chemistry
Organisation: University of St Andrews
Scheme: Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts: 05 January 1998 Ends: 04 January 2001 Value (£): 45,532
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Materials Synthesis & Growth
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This proposal aims to further develop the important emerging field of crystal engineering and produce new catalytically active microporous solids based on mixed inorganic/organic building blocks. The proposed materials will have advantages over zeolite catalysts, to which they will be structurally similar, in a number areas; there will be excellent control over the porosity of the materials, and chemical properties such as hydrophobicity can be tuned to suit the reaction environment of the catalytic processes. These reactions will have impact on technology where currently used zeolites are not optimal because, e.g., they are detrimentally affected by water. The proposed materials will be designed for use in specific catalytic reactions. The target synthesis of microporous materials is topical and relates to the economically important areas of shape selective catalysts and olefin polymerisation, while an improvement of crystal engineering techniques, allowing solids with designer properties to be synthesised, is a long term goal of much solid-state chemistry. The proposal fits well with the call from the EPSRC for an increased effort on catalysis, which is a priority area in the governments technology foresight exercise.
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